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To: staytrue

That’s easy to answer.

Our Founders were counting on a populace of God-Fearing, Moral and Educated People to understand the RESPONSIBILITY laid at their feet by God Almighty to be forever VIGILANT of their FREEDOM.


35 posted on 02/04/2014 7:21:38 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Howie66

You don’t know what you are talking about.

“Our Founders were counting on a populace of God-Fearing, Moral and Educated People to understand the RESPONSIBILITY laid at their feet by God Almighty to be forever VIGILANT of their FREEDOM.”

YOU ARE SO VERY WRONG.

The founders greatly distrusted the people.

That is why they took direct election of the president out of the hands of the people and put in into the hands of “electors”

That is why they created a 6 year senate term with staggered classes. They did this so that some young Hitler could win the presidency, could have his party carry the House, but he would only have 1/3 of the senate.

The founders believed in an elite senate separate from the people who could put a check and balance on the rest including the judicial appointments of the president and foreign treaties.


38 posted on 02/04/2014 7:41:03 PM PST by staytrue
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